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To bring the discussion of the costs of Antichrist’s irredentist immigration assault on America down to the personal level, Breitbart reports, “In 2017, the National Academies of Science noted that state and local taxpayers are billed about $1,600 each year per immigrant to pay for their welfare and revealed that immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash welfare than American citizen households.”[2] It’s reasonable to assume that the $1,600 billed to state and local taxpayers in 2017 is much higher in 2024.

Many more appalling numbers of this sort could be cited, but these should suffice to give you a sense of the overwhelming financial burden that’s being imposed on the American people.

These numbers are no accident but are the practical outcomes of Rome’s socialist, irredentist immigration war being waged on the American people, a war with its theoretical roots in Roman Catholic Social Teaching.

Under the heading “Migration in the light of Catholic Social Teaching,” we read in SNL,

Catholic teaching has a long and rich tradition in defending the right to migrate…In modern times, this teaching has developed extensively in response to the worldwide phenomenon of migration. Pope Pius XII reaffirms the Church’s commitment to caring for pilgrims, aliens, exiles, and migrants of every kind in his apostolic constitution Exsul Familia affirming that all peoples have the right to conditions worthy of human life and, if these conditions are not present, the right to migrate. “Then–according to the teachings of [the encyclica Rerum Novarum–the right of the family to a [life worthy of human dignity] ⁶ is recognized. When this happens, migration attains its natural scope as experience often shows.”

While recognizing the right of the sovereign state to control its borders, Exsul Familia also establishes that this right is not absolute, stating that the needs of immigrants must be measured against the needs of the receiving countries:

“Since land everywhere offers the possibility of supporting a large number of people, the sovereignty of the State, although it must be respected, cannot be exaggerated to the point that access to this land is, for inadequate or unjustified reasons, denied to needy and decent people from other nations, provided of course, that the public wealth, considered very carefully, does not forbid this.”[3]

Roman Catholic Social Teaching is socialism in theory. In practice, it is the welfare state, big government, globalism, and irredentist immigration invasions.

My Reformation Day talk last year was an analysis of Exsul Familia Nazarethana (EFN),[4] one of the documents quoted in the above citation. One of the interesting facets of Rome’s immigration socialism is how coy the popes and bishops are about who will foot the enormous costs implied by their immigration war.

If you haven’t guessed by now, dear listener, the payee is you.

You are the one who is going to fork over the money to pay for health care, education, and housing for the millions upon millions of aliens, whether legal or illegal, that the Antichrist is bringing to America.  You are the one who is going to have to have your wages reduced through the increased labor supply and your taxes hiked, either through actual tax increases or through the deceptive policy of inflation.[5]

And according to Pope Pius XII,[6] the author of EFN, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and the Mexican Conference of Catholic Bishops, you have no right to complain. After all, “the sovereignty of the State, although it must be respected, cannot be exaggerated to the point that access to this land is, for inadequate or unjustified reason, denied to needy and decent people from other nations.” Since according to Rome, welfare migrants have a right to barge into your country, your state, and your hometown, and a “right to a life worthy of human dignity,” you have a reciprocal obligation to pay up and no basis to complain about it. Just ask the residents of Springfield, Ohio, who are getting a firsthand taste of what happens when Rome puts your community in its immigration crosshairs.

Put differently, the bishops and popes of Rome have shifted the cost of their irredentist immigration assault on America from themselves onto the shoulders of the American people. The Popes and bishops get to primp and preen and act all pious in public. You get to foot the bill. That’s the pure evil genius you’d expect from “that Antichrist, Man of Sin and Son of Perdition.”[7]

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[1] “Migrant crisis has US taxpayers on the hook for up to $451B, House GOP report says,” by Josh Christenson, The New York Post, 11/13/2023, https://nypost.com/2023/11/13/news/house-gop-report-cites-historic-451-billion-cost-of-migrant-crisis/, accessed 10/06/2024.

[2] “Sen. Roger Marshall Seeks to Block Biden’s Reopening Welfare-Dependent Immigration to U.S.” by John Binder, Breitbart, 11/23/2022, https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/11/23/sen-roger-marshall-seeks-to-block-bidens-reopening-welfare-dependent-immigration-to-u-s/, accessed 10/06/2024.

[3] SNL, 29-30.

[4] See Trinity Foundation Radio Episode 25: Antichrist’s illegal Alien Assault on America, https://www.trinityfoundation.org/podcast/TFR%2025.Antichrists%20Illegal%20Alien%20Assault%20on%20America.Final.mp3, accessed 10/06/2024.

[5] Unlike what we’re told in the mainstream news, inflation is not rising prices. Inflation is money printing.  More formally, inflation is the rate of growth of the money supply over and above the rate of growth in the wealth output of the economy. Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary defines inflation as “an increase in the volume of money and credit relative to available goods resulting in a substantial and continuing price in the general price level.” When the federal government deficit spends to facilitate Rome’s irredentist immigration assault on America, the Federal Reserve (America’s central bank) must create new dollars out of thin air to purchase the bonds from large banks known as primary dealers.  The Federal Reserve’s bond purchases are necessary to keep bond yields from shooting sharply higher, which would threaten the stability of the financial system. The new dollars created by the Federal Reserve to purchase the bonds steal their purchasing power from existing dollars, meaning the dollars in our checking and saving accounts are worth less.  We experience this loss of the dollar’s purchasing power as rising prices at the grocery store. Few people realize that government deficit spending and central bank money printing are at the root of increasing prices at the gas pump and grocery store, which is why politicians for millennia have preferred to use inflation rather than direct taxation to drain their people’s wealth to fund their nefarious schemes.

[6] Pius XII has been called “Hitler’s Pope” due to his close ties to the Third Reich.

[7] Westminster Confession of Faith, 25.6. N.B., up through 1902, this was the reading of the Westminster Confession. According to John Robbins (see his Trinity Review “The Religious Wars of the 21st Century), the postmillennialists were responsible for removing the language about the Pope of Rome being “that Antichrist, man of sin, and son of perdition” from the Confession beginning in 1903. Such language tends to shock and even embarrass some Christians today, but the Westminster Divines got it right the first time. The contemporary Protestant church’s failure to recognize the Popes of Romes as the little horn of Daniel, the Antichrist, and the beast of Revelation 13 and 17 represents a major failure of the Protestant church in the 20^th and 21^st centuries. One of the results of this failure is that the papal Antichrist is destroying America right in front of our noses, but hardly anyone sees what’s going on as the Antichrist war that it is.

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